Water-bottle funnel-neck.



PATENTED JULY 1f-1 '1903.

R. D. BRADLEY. WATER BOTTLE TUNNEL NECK.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 24. 1902.

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, which- UNITED STATES Patented July 14, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT D. BRADLEY, OE CANTON, OHIO, AssIGNOR To THE CANTON RUBBER COMPANY, OE CANTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION.

WATER-BOTTLE FUNNEL-NECK.

SPECIFICATION 'forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,899, dated'July 14, 1903.

Application tiled September 24, 1902. Soria1No.124,615. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may Concern,.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT D. BRADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Starkand State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Water-Bottle Mouth, of which the following is a specifica tion.

The invention relates to the mouth of a rubber water-bottle or other iexible and elastic reservoir; and its object is to provide a firm and non-collapsible mouth for such bottles through which the bottle can be conveniently filled or emptied and by which it can be suspended on a hook or pin without obstructing the opening. I attain this object by the construction and arrangement illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the Inouth; Fig. 2, a perspective view ofthe mouth, showing an eye thereon and having some parts broken away; Fig. 3, a side elevationshowing the adaption of the mouth to a syringereservoir, and Fig. 4 a detached perspective view of the infiexible cup.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

The mouth isl made on the inflexible cup l, made of metal or other stiff material and preferably formed oval in cross-section with itsl sides straight. The cup is open at the top, and the bottom 3 is preferably inclined downward and inward, as a funnel, to the aperture which band is glued or cemented to the sides of the cup between lthe rim-liange and the bottom bead and on which base-band is in turn glued or cemented the neck of thebottle. The bottleneck is then tightly wrapped with the fine wire IO, either coutinuouslyor by a few wraps each above and below and in the middle, as illustrated, after which the nishing-band ll is put in place and is glued or cemented around the bottle-neck and over the wire wrapping. The suspending-eye l2 is formed or attached on one side of the cup when it is desired to hang the bottle on a hook or pin, as in case of the syringe-reservoir 13.

An iniiexible collar or ring has sometimes been provided inthe neck of a fiexible bottle and the flexible material extended or pro'- jected upward and outward therefrom to form aV funnel; but a funnel so formed easily co1- lapses, and a mouth designed on this plan in suitable Aproportions requires the neck of the v bottle'to be formed so small that it is quite difficult to stretch it enoughto remove the bottle from the mold on which it is made, and by locating the funnel-spout and its stopper in the bottom of an iniiexible cup the stopper is always readily accessible for manipulation.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Vl. In combination, aiiexible bottle having a neck, an'iniiexible cup attached by its sides in the neck, a spout leading from the bottom of the cup into the bottle, and a stopper in the spout.

2. In combination, a flexible bottle having a neck, an inflexible cup attached by its sides in the ne`ck,and a funnel-shaped bottom in the cup havingan aperture opening into the bottle.

3. vIn combination, a iiexible bottle having a neck, an inflexible cup attached by its sides in the neck, `and an aperture in the bottom Of the cup opening into the bottle.

. 'Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT D. BRADLEY. Witnesses:

HARRY FREASE, ELsIE F. MALLORY. 

